Measurement Computing DataShuttle - Manual (Page 89)

DataShuttle and DynaRes 11-12-01 QuickLog Introduction 10-1
QuickLog Introduction 10
General Information
Our primary objective is to provide you with data acquisition systems that are easy to install, operate, and
maintain. We also strive to provide the performance and versatility you need at the lowest overall cost. The
benefits for you are increased productivity, data you can count on, and, of course, meeting your cost and
time budgets.
QuickLog for Windows (QuickLog) is a menu-driven data acquisition software application that is supplied
with all of our data acquisition hardware products. It has an easy-to-use tabular interface, which brings
simplicity to the laboratory and industrial environments, allowing you to set up a typical data acquisition
application in less than 30 minutes.
Using QuickLog, together with our plug-in data acquisition boards and/or parallel port DataShuttles, you
can easily and quickly implement a broad spectrum of R&D or industrial tasks, in a variety of settings.
You can, for example,
• Display data in meters and charts,
• Automatically linearize thermocouples and RTDs,
• Monitor processes and experiments,
• Log data to disk for later analysis,
• Control devices using digital outputs,
• Gather data unattended, and
• Exchange data with other Windows applications via DDE.
This chapter shows how to install the QuickLog software. Please refer to Chapter 11 for instructions on
operation.
What You Need
These are the items necessary to start using QuickLog:
• This manual
• The QuickLog disk, and
• Any of our data acquisition device (connected to your PC according to the Owner’s Manual).
System Requirements
QuickLog works with most Wintel personal computers (PCs with Intel, or Intel-like CPUs, running
Windows) available today. The minimum software and hardware requirements your PC needs to run
QuickLog successfully are listed below. To get the best performance from the software, especially when
more than one Windows application is to be run, we recommend additional hardware resources.
Minimum Requirements
A personal computer with a 386 processor, a standard keyboard, a mouse or similar pointing device, and
• 4 MB memory (RAM),
• 2 MB of free hard disk space
• 3.5" diskette drive,
• A monitor and a VGA display adapter supported by Windows,
• One parallel interface (Centronics) if using a DataShuttles, and
• Windows (v3.1or later) or Windows 95/98 (No NT support).